GARDEN DESIGN IN THE NETHERLANDS 



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and the English country house of the same period. Almost invariably 

 of classic type, solidly built of brick with a sparing use ' of stone, they 

 lack the variety of outline that characterized the chateaux of Germany 

 and Flanders. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century it was still 

 necessary to surround the house by a deep mpat,' which was also put to 

 good use as the fish-pond. The garden generally followed the earlier 

 French taste of Marot 

 and was laid out in 

 symmetrical and regu- 

 lar forms. But as the 

 style of Le Notre 

 spread over the Con- 

 tinent after his death, 

 many gardens were 

 laid out for the rich 

 merchants of Amster- 

 dam, furnished with 

 bosquets, allees and 

 canals, but lacking 

 the profusion of sculp- 

 ture that was such an 

 important feature in 

 the French garden. 

 What is usually spoken 

 of as the Dutch style 

 hardly differs from 

 the French, except in 

 the more extended 

 use of canals, and in 

 the fact that the 

 Dutch gardens are more enclosed. 



The clairvoyee is a purely Dutch invention. Placed at the end of an 

 alley, it consists of two or more brick piers with an ornamental iron grille 

 between, to extend the garden view to the country beyond, perhaps to some 

 church steeple or other feature of the landscape. 



The orange was much cultivated in Holland in the seventeenth and 



A ROADSIDE GAZEBO NEAR HAARLEM. 



